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The Journal of Neuroscience, May 15, 2001, 21(10):3628-3638
Bidirectional Dopamine Modulation of GABAergic Inhibition in
Prefrontal Cortical Pyramidal Neurons
Jeremy K.
Seamans1,
Natalia
Gorelova2,
Daniel
Durstewitz3, and
Charles R.
Yang4
1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute for
Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, 2 Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6E 1V5, Canada,
3 Biopsychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44801 Bochum,
Germany, and 4 Neuroscience Discovery, Eli Lilly & Co.,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46285-0510
Dopamine regulates the activity of neural networks in the
prefrontal cortex that process working memory information, but its precise biophysical actions are poorly understood. The present study
characterized the effects of dopamine on GABAergic inputs to prefrontal
pyramidal neurons using whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in
vitro. In most pyramidal cells, dopamine had a temporally
biphasic effect on evoked IPSCs, producing an initial abrupt decrease
in amplitude followed by a delayed increase in IPSC amplitude. Using receptor subtype-specific agonists and antagonists, we found that the
initial abrupt reduction was D2 receptor-mediated, whereas the late,
slower developing enhancement was D1 receptor-mediated. Linearly
combining the effects of the two agonists could reproduce the biphasic
dopamine effect. Because D1 agonists enhanced spontaneous (sIPSCs) but
did not affect miniature (mIPSCs) IPSCs, it appears that D1 agonists
caused larger evoked IPSCs by increasing the intrinsic excitability of
interneurons and their axons. In contrast, D2 agonists had no effects
on sIPSCs but did produce a significant reduction in mIPSCs, suggestive
of a decrease in GABA release probability. In addition, D2 agonists
reduced the postsynaptic response to a GABAA agonist. D1
and D2 receptors therefore regulated GABAergic activity in opposite
manners and through different mechanisms in prefrontal cortex (PFC)
pyramidal cells. This bidirectional modulation could have important
implications for the computational properties of active PFC networks.
Key words:
prefrontal cortex; D1 receptor; D2 receptor; persistent
activity; interneuron; patch-clamp
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21103628-11$05.00/0
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